Serpent (1925)

At the peak of his career, Tsumasaburo Bando plays a noble but impulsive samurai whose fate is twisted by enemy plots. Caught between two women and unable to prove himself to either, he is forced to take desperate measures by becoming an assassin to protect one of them from a criminal threat. Against overwhelming odds and extended battles, the samourai faces the ultimate test of a warrior's endurance in this captivating masterpiece by Buntaro Futagawa.